AngelQuilters

To all our Friends & family,
With a very heavy heart we lost mom a week ago today on the early morning of the 1st of January. You know her as Elnora M.Whittaker, or MOM or Grandma Whittaker! Mom was a very hard working lady, I met her when I was 27 years old and fell in love with her youngest son Sam R. Whittaker, she taught me what a real mom was all about and taught me to be a better mom and we became the best of friends, for almost 25 years we were inseparable. A lot of you know her from the shop, she used to do quilting on the long arm for about six years and nobody could do binding the way mom could and she did many many quilts for a lot of people! We started quilting together back in 1996-1997! Some of our best memories are going to quilt camp or taking a class together! Then family, she loved her family first and foremost, everything she did was for her kids and grandchildren,she loved teaching all of us how to cook and learn how to can things , especially our tomatoes, how to make all different kinds of Jellies and bake, which I failed that one, lol but she taught her daughter Norma Jean and like her mom Norma can always whip up something very good along with dessert, you see a lot of that in her, she definitely knows her way around any kitchen! I have always admired the two of them every Christmas making cookies together and sew many varieties, totally amazing and very yummy!Sometimes it would take them several days because some doughs would have to be refrigerated for a day or two , but when done they had plates of cookies for friends, family and neighbors!
Sew many wonderful memories of her that I will take to my grave with me, but she is no longer in pain and she is now with her husband as well as mine her son! Rest in peace pretty Lady Elnora M.Whittaker
05/19/1930-01/01/2023
God received a beautiful Angel💕

Hello again to my friends and family,
Well I have been getting calls wanting to know about the shop and myself and I realize that I have said very little about my situation because I am trying to help my granddaughter and her son the best I can and when I am posting about them, I don’t want to take away from the situation sew I don’t talk much about myself! As a lot of you know I have been ill with severe pain since Christmas! Yes I should of gone to the doctors sooner but I was behind on quilting and needed to get quilts done for Christmas! I had my bladder surgery done and everything was perfect, but I was having severe pain on the left side and often on the right side also! After many appointments and tests they finally sent me to a group of surgeons who said I had hernias on both sides,sew I had surgery 7 weeks ago today and the hernia on the left side was a femoral hernia and they had not seen one this bad with such a big hole in it, surgery was supposed to be an hour and ended up being 3 hours! Long story short I still have a crippling pain on the left side and I am scheduled for another surgery Saturday June 4th as a emergency surgery and I am also on a cancellation list to get in sooner if someone else cancels! They are thinking this big lump is actually a plug that was put in me in 2011 for a hernia that they no longer use! I just want it gone sew I can get back to my life! I feel very very blessed that I have my sister and brother living with me now because I have only cooked twice in six months, they feed me and take very good care of me and I really don’t know what I would of done without them! I love you J and Dan! Thank you for loving me 💕I thank God every day for us finding each other like this!Sew I do all my pre op next Thursday and I am asking for prayers that everything gets fixed right this time, my doctor said that they have to open me up this time, but it’s will be worth it ,for all of this to be fixed! I opened my shop August 10,2010 and if everything goes right , I will be reopening my shop again Thursday August 11, 2022! Again I thank everyone for all the love and prayers and support that you have shown for me and my granddaughter and family, I can’t thank you enough except to say that I love you and cannot wait to be among the living again! God bless!

One more thing I want to share that is sew precious and brought beautiful tears to my eyes, my granddaughter was able to hold her son for the very first time this evening and seeing that beautiful smile on her face when she got home and listening to her talk about how it felt to hold her little bean was amazing, she really really needed that as her doctor called this morning and they are doing the heart cath on Giovoni Samuel tomorrow afternoon, sew again prayer warriors, let’s get this prayer chain going for Giovoni and I will let you know how it went as soon as possible after they are done!
God bless and good night